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Idiotic Chancellor makes monumental gaffe on TV: 'There are no unemployed people in the UK'


RT
Sun, 19 Nov 2017 15:19 UTC
Philip Hammond
© Mary TurnerBritain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond arrives at the BBC in London, November 19, 2017.
As the Tory party struggles to put out the fires from multiple public gaffes ahead of this week's budget, Chancellor Philip Hammond has claimed "there are no unemployed people in the UK."

In a discussion on BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, Hammond tried to draw comparisons with the IT revolution of the 80s and 90s when discussing the potential impact of driverless cars on British employment in the future.

"It's a simple choice: either we embrace change or we try to hide from change and we allow ourselves to slip behind," he said. "I remember 20 years ago we were worried about what would happen to a million shorthand typists in Britain as the personal computer took over. Nobody has a shorthand typist these days."

Comment: Chancellor Philip Hammond: Another politician who lives in a bubble-world of his own making until someone comes along with a pin.

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Gold Seal

10-year-old journalist to 'professionals': 'Get off your butts & find the truth!'

Timothy Meads
Town Hall
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:39 UTC
Hilde Kate Lysiak
Hilde Kate Lysiak
Last year, Christine wrote about Hilde Kate Lysiak, a 9-year old reporter from Selinsgrove, PA. Lysiak had just broken a major murder story in the town of 5,000. This obviously irked some of the "professional" journalists in her area.

Many were quick to condemn Lysiak, but the determined reporter had a message for her critics:
"If you want me to stop covering news, then you get off your computers and do something about the news. There, is that cute enough for you?"
Her story is making the rounds again, after a Tweet highlighting an interview she recently had with the Society of Professional Journalists went viral.
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Pistol

Man shouting 'Allahu Akbar' near French border prompts Spanish police to shoot him

Gerard Couzens
Express
Sat, 18 Nov 2017 15:04 UTC
Spanish police
Police have shot a man who sparked a terror alert near Spain's border with France by shouting 'Allah is Great' at a checkpoint.

Officers opened fire on the man, believed to be a Frenchman of north African origin, after he began to shout in Arabic when the vehicle he was traveling in was intercepted at a motorway toll near La Jonquera on the Spanish side of the border.

He was hit in the leg and rushed to a nearby hospital.

He has undergone an operation at the hospital - the Doctor Josep Trueta University Hospital in Girona - and his life is not said to be in any danger.

Local reports said officers ordered him out of the car he was in after searching the woman driver - and became suspicious after seeing he had a 'suspicious object' by his waist.
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Arrow Down

Terminal decline of the American empire


The Automatic Earth
Sat, 18 Nov 2017 18:32 UTC
three crosses
Rembrandt van Rijn The Three Crosses 1653
John Rubino recently posted a graph from Bob Prechter's Elliot Wave that points to some ominous signs. It depicts the S&P 500, combined with consumer confidence and savings rate. As the accompanying video at Elliott Wave, What "Too Confident to Save" Means for Stocks, shows, when the gap between high confidence and low savings is at its widest, a market crash -often- follows.

In 2000, the subsequent crash was 39%, in 2007 it was 54%. We are now again witnessing just such a gap, with the S&P 500 at record levels. Here's the graph, with John's comments:

Consumers Are Both Confident And Broke
Elliott Wave International recently put together a chart that illustrates a recurring theme of financial bubbles: When good times have gone on for a sufficiently long time, people forget that it can be any other way and start behaving as if they're bulletproof. They stop saving, for instance, because they'll always have their job and their stocks will always go up. Then comes the inevitable bust. On the following chart, this delusion and its aftermath are represented by the gap between consumer confidence (our sense of how good the next year is likely to be) and the saving rate (the portion of each paycheck we keep for a rainy day). The bigger the gap the less realistic we are and the more likely to pay dearly for our hubris.
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Attention

Muslim men barge into monastery and demand the nuns convert to Islam

Chris Tomlinson
Breitbart
Sat, 18 Nov 2017 18:23 UTC
nun with cross
© THIERRY ZOCCOLAN/AFP/Getty Images
Two Islamist men barged into the Carmelite Verdun monastery late last week during evening prayers in which they told the nuns to convert to Islam or go to hell.

The two men were described as being in their thirties and both sporting beards and are said to have prayed in Arabic while the nuns were conducting their evening prayers. The pair also signed the guestbook of the monastery writing "Allah u Ackbar" though there were no reports of any violence taking place L'Est Républicain reports.

Bishop of Verdun Jean-Paul Gabriel Émile Gusching said commented on the matter saying, "they prayed in Arabic during Vespers," and added, "They presented themselves as harbingers and told them: if you do not convert, you will go to hell.'

On Sunday both men were arrested and later brought before Verdun prosecutor Guillaume Dupont who said, "They will be summoned to the verdict court of Verdun to be tried at a hearing on April 28, 2018, at 8:45 am for aggravated voluntary violence."
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Eye 2

Harvey Weinstein had a secret list of people to target as part of a strategy to prevent harassment claims from going public

Mark Townsend
The Guardian
Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:02 UTC
Harvey Weinstein
© Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP
The Observer has gained access to a secret hitlist of almost 100 prominent individuals targeted by Harvey Weinstein in an extraordinary attempt to discover what they knew about sexual misconduct claims against him and whether they were intending to go public.

The previously undisclosed list contains a total of 91 actors, publicists, producers, financiers and others working in the film industry, all of whom Weinstein allegedly identified as part of a strategy to prevent accusers from going public with sexual misconduct claims against him.

The names, apparently drawn up by Weinstein himself, were distributed to a team hired by the film producer to suppress claims that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women.

The document was compiled in early 2017, around nine months before the storm that blew up on 5 October when the New York Times published a series of sexual harassment allegations against Weinstein.
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Info

Sex, power, consent: Interpreting the "sexual assault" media frenzy

Joe Jarvis
The Daily Bell
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 20:32 UTC
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The same media that covered for the rich and powerful is now delighting in throwing them one by one under the sexual assault bus.

I can't deny that it is a joy to watch liberal elites like Al Franken and Harvey Weinstein fall from grace.

But a chill goes down my spine when I think, but why now? Why has the media suddenly done a complete 180?

Don't get me wrong, it is great to hold sexual predators accountable. But the first thing that doesn't feel right is "convicting" people in the court of public opinion based only on an accusation.

Okay, so for people like Weinstein and Spacey, there are enough people coming forward with enough verifiable evidence that they are beyond a reasonable doubt sexual predators. Al Franken posed in a photo that confirms his harassment.

But could this be the media's angle? The first step is to accuse all the easy targets. Get the public whipped into a frenzy. Once everyone has the torches and pitchforks, all that will be required is an accusation, and the mob will burn the witches. And at that point, no one will wait to see if the evidence pans out. A simple accusation, true or false will condemn a man and destroy his career.

Comment: SOTT discussed this topic on this week's episode of Behind the Headlines. Listen in here: Weinstein's Weinergate Goes Nuclear: Where is society at with #MeToo?

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The hell that is Gaza: Rampant sexual abuse, drugs and despair

Ayelett Shani
Haaretz
Sat, 11 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
palestinian children gaza
© AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMSPalestinians gather around a fire during a power cut in the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, on January 4, 2017
Mohammed Mansour, who treats Gaza's victims of sexual assault, describes the dystopian nightmare that Palestinians are living
Talking to: Mohammed Mansour, 49, lives in Galilee town of Mash'had; psychologist, volunteer in Gaza with Physicians for Human Rights. Where: A Jaffa café. When: Sunday, 8 A.M.
For more than a decade you've been making frequent visits to the Gaza Strip, as a volunteer who provides psychological assistance.

I'm an expert in trauma treatment, and more specifically of children who have undergone sexual assault or who display abusive sexual behavior. As part of the humanitarian assistance given, I treat children and train professionals to provide trauma therapy. I go in and out of Gaza, under the auspices of the Physicians for Human Rights nonprofit, every two to three months. In the 1990s I even lived there for half a year while I was doing a research study.

So you're well acquainted with pre-embargo Gaza, too.

Of course.

And I understand that it's your feeling, from your last visit, about a month ago, that something has changed. You discern a new tendency.

Yes. In this visit I encountered a large number of cases of sexual abuse among the children. That's a phenomenon that has always existed, but in this visit, and also in the previous visit, in August, it suddenly reached far larger dimensions. It's become positively huge. More than one-third of the children I saw in the Jabalya [refugee] camp reported being sexually abused. Children from ages 5 to 13.

Comment: Israel created the worst concentration camp in modern history - even the Nazis did not do this in their experiments.

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Brain

Let's stop pretending that the ADL is a civil rights organization

Lesley Williams
Truthout
Sat, 18 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, speaks onstage at the morning session of the ADL Annual Meeting on November 6, 2014, in Los Angeles, California.
© Michael Kovac / WireImageNational Director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, speaks onstage at the morning session of the ADL Annual Meeting on November 6, 2014, in Los Angeles, California.
I am an African-American Jew by choice, who grew up in Chicago in the '60s and '70s. My father fled racial terror in the deep south; my mother worked on civil rights and peace initiatives in Europe after World War II. For both of them, Jews and Jewish organizations like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) -- founded in 1913 to fight a rising tide of anti-Semitism and bigotry against Jewish immigrants -- represented hope for racial justice in their lifetimes. Throughout the 1960s and '70s, the ADL helped mobilize support for civil rights and voting rights legislation, marching in Selma and supporting the end of segregation in schools. To us, the ADL was one of the good guys, one of the few white organizations that was looking out for African Americans.

I started to become disenchanted in the early '80s when the ADL opposed affirmative action during the Bakke case. It was a shock, and a moment when a lot of African Americans were beginning to ask: If the ADL is our ally, why would they not support a key civil rights issue for Black Americans?

Comment: For more information on the ADL:

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Bizarro Earth

Indonesian woman whipped by masked Sharia law enforcer for 'committing adultery'

Kelly-Ann Mills
Mirror
Sat, 18 Nov 2017 00:49 UTC
woman getting caned sharia law
© REX/ShutterstockShe was whipped for adultery
Shocking images have emerged of a woman being brutally canned by a masked sharia law punisher for allegedly committing adultery.

The public caning was carried out by an algojo - a sharia law executor - who was dressed all in black with an eerie black and white mask covering his identity.

The woman, dressed in white, was forced to kneel beside the algojo to face her fate.
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